Xash 3D[engine]

[Max_Salivan]

hello all,
Can anyone else to do porting of this engine for the PSP
it is a game engine that is compatible with the engine GoldSource from Valve LLC, which, in particular, is based game Half-Life, Counter-Strike and many other games.
engine is open source and distributed under the LGPL
this is archive with documentations

[leileilol]

[mh]

If it has a Valve copyright notice on it you should avoid it like the plague. Run from it. Turn your back on it. Never let it darken your doorstep again.

Valve have restrictive licensing. Did you know that it's illegal to use the HL tools for any game other than HL? Want to get a nice little C&D in the mail? Want to attract the attention of scary legal people? Then use the Valve/HL stuff, by all means. Otherwise - don't.

[Barnes]

I know a little this engine. Rendering part based on source code q1-2
compatibility with hl1 is ensured through hl1 SDK

[Spike]

the hl1 sdk prohibits use outside of halflife, which is incompatible with the gpl.
valve's headers are included from the engine and distribution of the engine is only permittable if those headers are gpl-compatible.
so you could get a C&D from either valve or id.
also note that the hl1 sdk has a license termination date after which you're no longer allowed to use it.

the only legal solution is to clean-room reverse engineer, and to live in a country where that's actually legal...

[DolphinsOfCydonia]

[mh]

[Barnes]

I really do not like all those wars around of the license GPL, because I think that its main task to protect the work of the authors. Free for modernization, for the fans, which create new versions of the game. But not for commercial use. Can be understood a license as is, but you can understand that it protects in real life. In any case, simply ask the same Gabe Newell, what he thinks about this situation. How do I know it is quite adequate and going to the understanding man. But it must come from the author hash3d.

[DolphinsOfCydonia]

[mh]

Argue all you want, but it will be Valve's lawyers you'll be arguing with.

[revelator]

tbh i hate it as much as any developer but as long as you have to apply to US developer rights its going to hit you in the face (and hard!) unfortunatly untill someone wakes up and smells the ashes theres not much you can do.
i hope someday they see the benefit of having several free working coders crunch remaining bugs and adding improvements hey it works in EU

[DolphinsOfCydonia]

[Baker]

Are you an attorney?

[mh]

[toneddu2000]

I'm completely ignorant about the thread, but I can't understand where's the problem.
It only takes to contact Valve, explain the porting intention and wait for a reply.
If Valve Team should accept the porting, the permission will be added to the header with the name of who has benefited of the license agreement.
That's it. Valve, Epic, Id, are companies. Not evil pits full of demons located at the center of earth (well, maybe id has a closet with brooms and demons, but that's another story! ). Their scope is profict, like every company else in the world. Talk with them is the only method to do things correctly.